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DU XIYUN
Experiencing The Extreme: Sun Yao’s Paintings
Art can be another world parallel to the reality. In Sun Yao’s painting world, the heavens collapse, stars explode, and visual energy...
HUANG SHENGZHI
On The Waves of
“In the midst of the river, waves surge to the sky; on the frontier, wind and clouds merge with the earth's shadow.” (Autumn Meditations,...
KIM KI-BU
About Sun Yao’s World of Art
Out of the contemporary Chinese artists born in the 1970s, Sun Yao (孫堯, b.1974) is one who has the potential to elevate Chinese abstract...
JULIAN STALLABRASS
Into The Woods: Sun Yao’s Animist Realm
In a story told by my PhD tutor, Piet Mondrian who, as the threat of war increased, had decided to flee by train to London was collected...
DEVIKA SINGH
Sun Yao: Probing The Infinite
Sun Yao’s art probes the incommensurable, whether it be the infinitesimally small or the cosmic infinity. The artist’s coherent process,...
DU XIYUN
The Haunting Illusions of Sun Yao: A Tale of Eloquent Exploration
“I might want everything: the infinite spiral of darkness with each fall, and the trembling brilliance with each ascending step.” (Rainer...
HUTCH WILCO
The Island of Make Believe and The Same Island Come True
“I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map...
RAUL ZAMUDIO
Light Energy, Dark Matter: Notes on Sun Yao’s Neverland – Landscape Paintings
Sun Yao: Self-Consistent is a series of paintings exhibited as an architectural, environmental installation that, among other things,...
RAUL ZAMUDIO
Topographies of The Self
Topographies of The Self is a solo exhibition of the painter Sun Yao, whose title alludes to the symbiosis between landscape and...
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